When and how is it done?

Reasons for cutting a room fir

There are a few reasons to cut a room fir in the first place. If you want to preserve the appearance of the tree, think carefully about whether you really need to use scissors.

• Lace caps
• Shorten branches
• Remove branches that are too dense
• Win offshoots

What happens if you cut a room fir?

If you decide to cut a room fir, keep in mind that the tree will not sprout again from the old wood. Branches or tips that you cut off once are irretrievably lost. If you cut the tip, it will no longer grow back, but the tree will have several tips. Sometimes the fir tree dies afterwards.

You should therefore only cut branches that are too close or that have brown or yellow needles. Even drooping branches you can cut, as these no longer recover and straighten up.

Long branches that disrupt the overall appearance of the indoor fir should be shortened directly above a branch so that the pruning does not become too deep eye falls.

Never leave stumps when cutting

Cut any twigs that you want to remove entirely, right on the trunk. Don't leave stumps standing.

Propagate the fir tree by cuttings

It is not very useful to add cuttings to a room fir multiply. You must be allowed to cut the top of the tree. This will destroy the appearance. This type of propagation is only worthwhile if the indoor fir is very old and you want to dispose of it soon anyway.

Cutting cuttings from the side branches works occasionally. However, the offshoots only sprout very unevenly and appear rather scruffy.

Therefore, it is better to propagate a room fir from seeds that you can get in stores. In indoor culture, the indoor fir itself does not develop seeds.